The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

Pitchers grumble about lively balls and lively bats, the shrinking strike zone, and the fact that the knock-down pitch is now illegal.

* 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

( Scuba diving for abalone in the states of New South Wales and Western Australia is illegal ; a free-diving catch limit of two is allowed ).

Sale of sport-obtained abalone is illegal, including the shell.

Qualified individuals do not include any employee or applicant who is currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs when that usage is the basis for the employer's actions.

Tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC ) and some other cannabinoids, either from the Cannabis sativa plant or synthetic, have analgesic properties, although the use of cannabis derivatives is currently illegal in many countries.

However, brews made using DMT containing plants are illegal since DMT is a Schedule I drug.

One way of reducing the risk is through the illegal use of inside information, and in fact risk arbitrage with regard to leveraged buyouts was associated with some of the famous financial scandals of the 1980s such as those involving Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.

It is illegal to sell packaged liquor ( off-premises sales ) on Sundays.

Hunting on Sunday is illegal in 41 of 55 counties.

In Norway the sale of alcohol on Sundays and election day is strictly illegal, the sale of alcohol on Saturdays ends at 6pm, while it ends 8pm at weekdays.

The Convention states that illegal hazardous waste traffic is criminal but contains no enforcement provisions.

In Australia, it is illegal to sell a cutting implement such as a utility knife to anyone under 16 years of age, and proof of age is often demanded of purchasers.

Under French law ( the Toubon Law ), it is illegal for commercial signage to be in Breton alone ; it must be bilingual or else in French alone.

It is illegal for a player to make a move that would put or leave his own king in check.

The coast is a frontier that nations have typically defended against military invaders, smugglers and illegal migrants.

However, representing oneself as a " Professional Software Engineer " without a license from an accredited institution is illegal in many parts of the world.

When a monarch does act, political controversy can often ensue, partially because the neutrality of the crown is seen to be compromised in favour of a partisan goal, while some political scientists champion the idea of an " interventionist monarch " as a check against possible illegal action by politicians.

Cannibalism is rare and is not illegal in most countries.

Gustaf Vasa is a superb example, and Charles 10,, the conqueror of Denmark, hardly less so.

* Denmark is represented in Angola through its embassy in Lusaka ( Zambia ).

* Angola is represented in Denmark, through its embassy in Stockholm, ( Sweden ).

The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).

* 1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.

* 1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

* 1080 – King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.

Today, his descendants can be found in many places outside of Afghanistan, such as in America, France, Germany, and even in Scandinavian countries such as Denmark and carry the surname of Ziyaee, which is itself a derivative of the King's title.

Bjarne Stroustrup (); born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark ) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C ++ programming language.

The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.

Bornholm (; Old Norse: Burgundaholmr, " the island of the Burgundians ") is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea located to the east of ( most of ) the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, and north of Poland.

The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north ( unlike the rest of Denmark which is very flat with few hills and no mountains ), sloping down towards “ pine and deciduous forests ” ( greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s ) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.

Bornholm Regional Municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as the result of the nationwide Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), which is quite understandable, since the island, as can be seen on maps, is quite far from the rest of Denmark.

In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a " macabre spectacle " that " is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ...

Copenhagen ( or ; ) is the capital of Denmark and its most populous city, with an urban population of 1, 213, 822 () and a metropolitan population of 1, 937, 611 ().

The group is found in England, northern France, the low countries, northern Germany, Denmark and in the subsurface of the southern part of the North Sea.

The Presidency of the Council is not a single post, but is held by a member state's government ( Denmark for the first half of 2012 ).

Kontinenten – the Continent – is a vernacular Swedish expression excluding Sweden, Norway and Finland, but including Denmark ( even the Danish archipelago ) and the rest of continental Europe.

The Faroe Islands, a territory of Denmark, is also treated as a non-Party to CITES.

The central statistical office, Statistics Denmark is responsible for compiling these data.

This information is available online in the Statbank Denmark.